that's not really a check on government power because the judge could be an obama appointee. as much as i disagree with president obama, as much as i think he has been a divisive president, in many ways has failed to lead, i want to disassociate myself from the concept that you can't give this commander in chief the powers that commander in chiefs have enjoyed in other wars because we hate him so much. and to my friends who get on the internet and talk radio and stoke this paranoia, we're afraid enough for good reason. this is a dangerous world. we're about to walk off the fiscal cliff. we have people out there trying to undermine our way of life. there is a lot to be afraid of -- al qaeda coming back to our shores, recruiting american citizens to help their endeavors. i hate to say it. in every war we have ever been in, there have been occasions where americans joined the enemy. and in world war ii, that happened. you had german saboteurs land in long island, aided and abetted by american citizens sympathetic to the nazis. all of those american citizens in in re curran were